This week’s episode of Leading Between the Lines brings us together with Michael Hamilton, founder of Hamilton Specialist Referrals, one of the UK and Europe’s leading veterinary hospitals.

It’s special. Why? Because not only is Michael one of the best veterinary surgeons in the world, he also has a passion and a skillset around developing people that makes HSR an irresistible combination.

Where technical excellence is a given, leadership and people management are valued and implemented to a level where the overall experience is off the scale.

Michael talks openly about the development and opening of the hospital in 2018 with his wife Clare (“the Steve Jobs of the operation, she does things I can’t do”) and their attitude of “I don’t care what’s been done before, if we can do it better we will”.

It’s highly unusual to find someone with such technical ability who has an equal passion for developing people - “my major thing is to help my guys achieve what they want to achieve in their careers”.

Michael is humble, talented and passionate. If you don’t do anything else today listen to this, it’s, well, you decide how good it is…